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Nancy @plaintanjane.bsky.social · 4h

He wasn’t in a “car crash” according to witnesses and video, it appears he was being stalked by ICE agents in unmarked vehicles and they rammed his truck.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 5h

A main organizer of VC Defensa in Ventura County was rammed in his vehicle by federal agents and taken into custody this morning. This video is from VC Defensa IG and shows the ramming. Organizers are thinking he’ll be taken to LA MDC—headed there now

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 4h

Los Angeles, CA -

As protesters continue to confront vehicles leaving Metro Detention Center, vehicles leaving. Some containing agents covered head to toe in clothing and taking cell phone footage. DHS coming out alongside the vehicles several times.

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 4h

Greetings! I’m here at Metro Detention Center in Los Angeles. According to several sources, prominent activist “Leo” from VC Defensa, a pro-immigrant rapid response team, was in a car crash in Oxnard and was transported under custody to a nearby hospital. He is reportedly on his way here.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · Sep 14

The Alchemy Lecture 2025

Sound—at the Interregnum

Glen Coulthard
Canisia Lubrin
Madeleine Thien
Immanuel Wilkins

Date: October 30, 2025
Time: 5 - 8 p.m. (Reception: 5 - 6 p.m.)
Venue: Tribute Communities Recital Hall, CIBC Lobby (Location) YorkU
Event type: Hybrid – in person and online

GLEN COULTHARD
(Yellowknives Dene/Canada), Scholar of Indigenous Studies)

IMMANUEL WILKINS
(US) Saxophonist, Composer, Arranger

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 2h

People still think they don’t need to read black thinkers to do their work. They’re wrong and their work is worse for it.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 6h

@sunrisemvmt.bsky.social activists asked Mitch McConnell to take a stand and he immediately fell to the floor.

10/10. No notes.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

This Supreme Court case in Louisiana is about one thing, and one thing only: reinstituting Jim Crow by way of ensuring that Black Americans are taxed without receiving representation in Congress.

Everything else is noise and bluster.

This stolen Supreme Court is going to send us back to the 1860s.

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Kate Burns @katerqburns.bsky.social · 1d

“led by Christian nationalist pastor Jack Hibbs, it will come during a year in which the Christian right made inroads into using tax-exempt church resources to influence politics, with the possibility of more progress to come.” www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

Hate group’s political rally at California church could test federal law

The Pray Vote Stand Summit comes on the heels of IRS decision allowing pastors to endorse candidates without jeopardizing tax-exempt status.

www.splcenter.org

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Kelly Stuart @skyspider.bsky.social · 1d

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Hate group’s political rally at California church could test federal law

The Pray Vote Stand Summit comes on the heels of IRS decision allowing pastors to endorse candidates without jeopardizing tax-exempt status.

www.splcenter.org

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Kelly Stuart @skyspider.bsky.social · 1d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 1d

Here is the Vice President defending adults who said they love Hitler, want to rape their enemies, put their political opponents in gas chambers, and that Black people are monkeys. Just to name a few.

Are these those Christian values JD Vance talks about?

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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 2d

This is why they hate antifascists so much - because they stopped Hitler the first time. And we'll do it again, to all those who didn't get the message. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Daisy Gardner @daisygardner.bsky.social · 2d

I think Antifa is anyone who has ever made fun of Andy Ngo.

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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 2d

This is just insane political theater. The FBI knows that there is no antifa network. And let’s be clear- neither of these media personalities are journalists.

The FBI showed up to my house to discuss my TV show exposing Antifa's network. If you are a member of Antifa or providing material or financial support for Antifa, I might be a little concerned because the FBI is DEADASS ...

The FBI has launched a FULL investigation into Antifa, and spent the weekend calling journalists who've been victims of Antifa violence I received a call from the FBI Sunday morning, and confirmed others did as well.
The Trump admin WILL take down this terrorist network

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 4d

Nobody wants it as a story but I have multiple NYPD sources who voted for Mamdani, are eager for his win in November, and who say their colleagues quietly feel the same.

They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 5d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 5d

Gaza After
We lost everything

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6d

When it comes toTrump’s immigration policy, cruelty has always been the point, but anti-immigrant animus is now being paired with unprecedented funding, manpower, and technology.

American Gulag

The brutal rollout of Trump's police state.

www.motherjones.com

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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · 6d

NEW from LCRW: @azrww.bsky.social covers a Phoenix-area neo-Nazi AI slop-poster obsessed with Goyim Defense League agitprop who's facing charges for threatening a local synagogue.

COURT RECORDS: GOYIM DEFENSE LEAGUE FANBOY ARRESTED FOR THREATS ON SYNAGOGUE | Left Coast Right Watch

A Phoenix area neonazi fan of the Goyim Defense League is set for a hearing next month after being arrested for threatening to target a local synagogue

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7d

Jack Posobiec spread antisenitic hate on Twitter for years, including tagging Jews with triple parentheses.

JD Vance wrote the forward to Posobiec’s book, Unhuman.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 7d

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 7d

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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